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Church Of Scientology Settles Dispute With Internet Provider
August 5, 1996, Seattle Times
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960805&slug=2342768
The Church of Scientology has settled a copyright dispute with an
Internet provider that many in the computer industry worried would
restrict freedom of expression in cyberspace.
Tags: Netcom, Religious Technology Center
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Internet Provider Settles Scientology Copyright Suit
August 5, 1996, Associated Press
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Internet-Provider-Settles-Scientology-Copyright-Suit/id-b4cea42bd90465f1610ed8082f794f2a
SAN JOSE, CALIF. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ The Church of Scientology has
settled a copyright dispute with an Internet provider that many in the
computer industry worried would restrict freedom of expression in
cyberspace.
The church and Netcom On-Line Communication Services, one of the
nation's largest Internet access providers, agreed not to discuss
details of the out-of-court settlement reached Friday in San Jose.
They did say, however, that the online service has posted a warning to
its subscribers telling them not to use Netcom to "unlawfully
distribute the intellectual property of others."
Tags: 1995, Copyright, Dennis Erlich, Glendale, Hollywood, Netcom, Quicky,
Religious Technology Center, San Jose, Tom Klemesrud
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No answers in Scientology case
August 5, 1996, Rose Aguilar, CNET
http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-220158.html
Many Internet legal analysts are disappointed by an out-of-court
settlement between Netcom and the Church of Scientology because now
they"ll have to wait for another case to come to light before a court
sets a firm precedent on Internet access providers' liability for
online copyright infringement.
Tags: Dennis Erlich, Helena Kobrin, Judge Whyte, Netcom
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SCIENTOLOGISTS SETTLE LAWSUIT AGAINST INTERNET ACCESS FIRM
August 5, 1996, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/08/05/scientologists-settle-lawsuit-against-internet-access-firm/471d9806-943d-4e00-a006-e35269e56618/
A lawsuit that many in the on-line community feared would set a
precedent restricting freedom of expression on the Internet has been
settled out of court.
Netcom On-Line Communications Services Inc. announced Saturday it had
settled the intellectual property dispute initiated by Religious
Technology Center (RTC), a wing of the Church of Scientology.
RTC had sought to prohibit Netcom subscribers from posting sacred
writings expressing the church's belief that man's spiritual problems
stem from an intergalactic holocaust 75 million years ago. The church
claimed some of the writings were protected under U.S. copyright laws.
Both parties agreed not to disclose specific details of the settlement.
Tags: 1993, 1995, Lawyer, Netcom, Quicky, Religious Technology Center
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Battlefield Travolta
August 5, 1999, Enzo Di Matteo, NOW Magazine
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/18/49/News/feature2.html
It's been a difficult couple of years for Scientology, which is trying
to polish its fringe image as it awaits word from Revenue Canada about
its application for charitable status.
But positive PR may be coming to a theatre near you. Screen star John
Travolta, Scientology's most famous promoter, has embarked on a film
adaptation of Battlefield Earth, the doomsday sci-fi thriller penned by
the church's messianic founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Tags: Al Buttnor, Author Services Inc, Battlefield Earth, John Travolta,
Montreal, Narconon, Xenu
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Doc suspended for prescribing Valium
August 5, 2001, AP, The Trentonian
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2178956&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6
A doctor was suspended for a year for improperly prescribing Valium to
unlicensed Church of Scientology workers caring for a church member who
had suffered a mental breakdown.
Dr. David I. Minkoff, 53, of Clearwater, Fla., also a Scientologist,
will lose his medical license for a year and will be required to
practice under probation for two more years, the Board of Medicine
ruled Friday. He was fined $10,000.
Tags: David Minkoff, Joan Wood, Lisa McPherson
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Mayor and his pharmacy sued
August 5, 2003, Tom O'Leary, Press-Enterprise
https://web.archive.org/web/20090309140016/http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarchive/2003/08/05/1060062559.html
The lawsuit is the second time Stone's work as a pharmacist has thrust
him into the spotlight during a political campaign.
The first instance came about four years ago when Stone admitted
committing four improper business practices. In exchange for that
admission, 16 other accusations lodged against him by the state Board
of Pharmacy were dismissed.
In December 1999, Stone said he agreed to settle the case because he
wanted to put the unpleasant experience behind him. He said all the
serious allegations against him were dismissed and his attorney showed
state officials that he had complied with the law.
Tags: Jeff Stone, Riverside County, Temecula
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Debunking a movement / Scientollywood
August 5, 2005, Carl Kozlowski, Pasadena Weekly
http://web.archive.org/web/20050806235055/www.pasadenaweekly.com/features/feature/feature.html
Exposing some of the unsavory claims that Tom Cruise, John Travolta and
other celebrities would rather you didn't know about Scientology
Tags: Arnaldo Lerma, Building Management Services, Celebrity Centre, Cult
Awareness Network, Fair Game, Graham Berry, Jack Parsons, Michelle Stith, OT,
Richard Leiby, Robert Vaughn Young, Sea Org, Steven Fishman, Timothy Miller,
Tom Cruise, Tory Christman, Uwe Geertz, Vistaril, Xenu
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Margarita Lopez stays mum through Scientology flap
August 5, 2005, Paul Schindler, Downtown Express
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_117/margaritalopezstays.html
In a series of three stories and an editorial that began Monday, the
New York Post reported that Lopez was the key City Council player in
securing $630,000 in city funds for the New York Rescue Workers
Detoxification Project, a center on Fulton St. that offers September 11
first responders treatments based on large amounts of Vitamin B-3,
sauna baths and exercise, in lieu of traditional medical therapies. The
treatment is based on theories developed by L. Ron Hubbard,
Scientology's late founder. Scientology's most famous exponent, Tom
Cruise, was on hand with Lopez for the center's groundbreaking.
The Post reported that the treatment is widely dismissed by medical
professionals and noted that the adverse public reaction led the
firefighters' union to pull its support for the project.
Tags: Detox, John Carmichael, Margarita Lopez, Tom Cruise
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The gullible age
August 5, 2007, Peter Millar, The Sunday Times
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2198063.ece
A man who holds no truck with established religion is unsurprisingly
unlikely to have much good to say about Scientology, which purports to
use scientific tools such as its controversial "E-meter". "It's purely
made-up. It just taps into some 'gullibiligy'. They find some film star
or somebody like Tom Cruise or whatever his name is who's thick as two
short planks and he becomes a sort of advertisement."
Tags: Richard Dawkins
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Human Rights: A Cynical Perspective
August 5, 2009, DatsumJB, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFhqHTTD7s
From Ron's Journal '68, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard outlines why
human rights are so important for Scientology. "Human rights for me,
but not for thee."
Tags: Quicky, Ron's Journal
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Scientology Leader David Miscavige caught lying on Nightline 1992
August 5, 2009, EnturbulationStation, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRR2H9Zi5ZE
Watch from about 1:25 until 2:02
Miscavige tries to pull a typical fast one but Ted Koppel stops and
asks "who was the sponsor...". Little David flickers his eyelids and
then stumbles, "I have a copy and...." Then he continues on with the
LRonHubbard sounding, "Oh yes! oh yes! oh yes!...." and then the Tommy
Davis sounding, "major, major, major...."
David Miscavige channeling LRonHubbard, Tommy Davis and Tom Cruise ALL
IN 37 SECONDS!!!!
Tags: 1992, David Miscavige, Nightline, Quicky, SEC, Siberia, Ted Koppel, Tom
Cruise, Tommy Davis, USA
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Scientology's Creepy New Uniforms
August 5, 2009, Ryan Tate, Gawker
https://gawker.com/5330967/scientologys-creepy-new-uniforms
Want to work in one of Scientology's fresh new "Ideal Org" churches?
Then get ready to put on your 20-piece uniform, mandatory for all cult
staff. Planetary humanity is not going to be perfected by slobs, after
all.
These uniforms are manufactured by some sort of magical logistics
pipeline called a "conveyor belt" for the "Ideal Org," a purportedly
superior new type of church, according to International Scientology
News. The uniform is intended to unite staff on "six continents" and
help them look the part of "emissaries of a new civilization."
Tags: Ideal Org, Richard Tyler, Swing coat
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Tom Cruise and Scientology: A Very French Kiss
August 5, 2009, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/08/tom_cruise_and_2.php
One Day One Destiny - Tom Cruise (FR English subs) from Sic Transit on
Vimeo.A tip of the hat to Wise Beard Man, Mark Bunker, for bringing
this French television documentary to our attention. "One Day One
Destiny" is a fascinating look at Tom Cruise and his history in
Scientology.Remember that video of a crazed-looking Cruise explaining
how only Scientologists can help at a car accident? Well, here's some
eye-opening context for that video, and plenty of other background on
the star that few others have put together so well.Scientology watchers
will appreciate the terrific interviews with Marc Headley, Karen
Pressley, Bruce Hines and other former Scientologists who watched
Cruise become Scientology leader David Miscavige's special project.
Enjoy!
Tags: Bruce Hines, David Miscavige, Destin, Karen Pressley, Marc Headley,
Mark Bunker, Quicky, Tom Cruise, Vimeo, Wise Beard Man
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The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 25: Xenu, Galactic Overlord
August 5, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/xenu_top_25_crippling_scientology.php
But we think it's time Xenu got more credit for all that he's done.
Think about it, for about 19 years, after L. Ron Hubbard dreamed the
sucker up in a pill-popping and boozy haze while sailing the Atlantic
and Mediterranean in the mid-1960s, until the Los Angeles Times finally
made Xenu's story public during the Larry Wollersheim trial in 1986,
only high-level Scientologists even knew that the alien leader existed.
UPDATE: Ah, the beauty of a blog -- instant updating! Maybe for many of
us the L.A. Times was our first glimpse of our mighty galactic hero,
but I've just been reminded that one of the giants of Scientology
reporting, Richard Leiby, beat the Times by five years!
Tags: 1960, 1981, 1986, 2009, ABC, CIA, Clearwater Sun, CNN, David Miscavige,
Dianetics, E-meter, Facebook, Hugh Urban, Jesus Christ, John Roberts, John
Travolta, KESQ, Lawrence Wollersheim, Los Angeles Times, Mediterranean,
Nathan Baca, New York, Operating Thetan, OT, OT III, OT VIII, Palm Springs,
Richard Leiby, South Park, Teegeeack, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, Xenu
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Movie Night at Scientology's New York "Org": The Village Voice Gets
Proselytized!
August 5, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_andreas_heldal_lund_new_york_org.php
The image you see here means a lot to us at the underground bunker,
where we keep an eye on all things Scientology related. And on this
lazy Sunday morning, we hope you'll indulge us as we attempt to explain
what it represents.
Andreas Heldal-Lund, meet Chill EB.
Chill, meet the devil.
Tags: 1940, 1950, 1968, 1977, 2000, 2001, African-American, American Medical
Association, American Psychiatric Association, Andreas Heldal-Lund,
Anonymous, BBC, California, Chick Corea, Chill EB, Copenhagen, Critic, David
Love, David Miscavige, DC, Dianetics, eBay, Facebook, Geoffrey Lewis, Golden
Era Productions, Heber Jentzsch, International Association of Scientologists,
Jeff Jacobsen, Karin Spaink, Mark Bunker, Montreal, Movie, Nancy Cartwright,
Neil Gaiman, Netherlands, New York, New York City, Norman Berry, Norway,
Operation Clambake, OT, OT VII, Peter Alexander, Quicky, Sea Org, Sunday
Funnies, Sweden, The Master, Tom Cruise, Tory Christman, Twitter, Washington,
YouTube, Zenon Panoussis
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Emotions II: Play Acting Scientologists
August 5, 2013, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/emotions-ii-play-acting-scientologists/
Scientology culture is recognizable by its collective, synthetic
'cheerful' or 'enthusiastic' emotional tone. Scientologists learn to
put on a happy face. If they are seen without one, a fellow
Scientologist considers it his duty to 'handle' it. And that primarily
means making the person mentally deal with the life situation causing
the lower emotion so that he can easily mentally cope with putting on a
happy face in spite of it. In a Scientology group one is expected to
act happy. To display any emotion less than that results in
Scientologists almost instinctively interceding with a person's psyche
to remedy the perceived problem. A Scientologist learns eventually to
convincingly act happy all the time, even when he or she is feeling
deep sorrow, a sense of devastating loss, or is suffering pangs of
conscience.
Scientologists will bridle at the notion they are taught to play act
through life. But, the technology they are applying day in and day out
is plain:
'Force yourself to smile and you'll soon stop frowning. Force yourself
to laugh and you'll soon find something to laugh about. Wax
enthusiastic and you'll very soon feel so. A being causes his own
feelings.' - L. Ron Hubbard 25 August 1982
Tags: 1982, Amazon, Brooklyn, Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, Quicky
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Miscavige The Magnificent
August 5, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/miscavige-the-magnificent/
Sheeple
The email below perfectly illustrates the "party lines" that are being
pushed within the corporate church to the sheeple.
All focus is on the magnificence of Dear Leader - even the "Ideal Orgs"
and "GAG II" take a backseat to recounting the glories of Miscavige.
Tags: 1960, 1993, AMA, Anatomy of the Human Mind Congress, Angie Blankenship,
AOLA, ASHO, Basics, Chairman of the Board, Class VI, Clear, Clearwater, CLO
EU, Coachman, Copenhagen, Cornerstone, David Miscavige, Denmark,
Disconnection, England, Europe, Field Staff Member, Flag Service
Organization, Golden Age of Knowledge, Hollywood, Ideal Org, International
Association of Scientologists, Jennifer Linson, Keep Scientology Working, L.
Ron Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard Way, Life Improvement Center, Madrid, Mental
breakdown, Miami, Mike Smith, Oak Cove, OT, OT 7, OT Ambassador, OT VII,
Portland, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Razzline, Religious Technology
Center, Saint Hill, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, San Jose, Sea Org,
Sec Check, Squirrel, Starbucks, Tom Cruise, Walter Kotric, Whole Track, WISE
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Recon, it looks like The Church (CULT) Of Scientology Scarborough Mission
CLOSED, GONE!!!
August 5, 2013, RootedLinuxBrian, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKgGP_yY6zg
A little recon of mine, done on spare time. Looks like this is the end
of that mission.
Tags: Malvern, Mission, Sheridan Cyrus, Toronto, Video
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Will Shelly Miscavige Be Trotted Out at the Celebrity Centre Gala As a PR
Stunt?
August 5, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2013/08/05/will-shelly-miscavige-be-trotted-out-at-the-celebrity-centre-gala-as-a-pr-stunt/
(Previously unpublished photo of Shelly Miscavige circa 1990 courtesy
of Claudio and Renata Lugli)
Our celebrity sources in the Church of Scientology tell us that church
leader David Miscavige is planning a bold stunt later this month at the
44th annual Celebrity Centre gala in Hollywood, California.
On July 8 we revealed that Leah Remini was breaking away from
Scientology in part because she dared to ask, persistently, about the
disappearance of Miscavige's wife, Shelly, who hasn't been seen by the
general membership of the church in six years. Since then, the
mainstream media has given momentum to a question that has been asked
for years in Internet forums: "Where's Shelly?"
Tags: 1927, 1973, 1982, 1990, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, Bodhi
Elfman, California, Celebrity Centre, Church of Scientology International,
Church of Spiritual Technology, David Miscavige, Golden Age of Tech, Heber
Jentzsch, Hemet, Hollywood, John Travolta, Karen de la Carriere, Kelly
Preston, Kirstie Alley, Leah Remini, Los Angeles, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder,
Nancy Cartwright, Quicky, Renata Lugli, Shelly Miscavige, The Hole
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Empty Threats: Church of Scientology Legal Threat Letters to Vanity Fair and
CNN
August 5, 2014, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2014/08/05/empty-threats-church-of-scientology-legal-threat-letters-to-vanity-and-cnn/
1. August 16, 2012: Church of Scientology attorney Jeffrey K. Riffer of
Elkins, Kalt, Weintraub, Reuben, Gartside LLP, sent a legal threat
letter to Graydon Carter, Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine. The threat was
an attempt to kill a story about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Vanity
Fair ignored the threat. Written by Maureen Orth, What Katie Didn't
Know appeared in the October 2012 edition of Vanity Fair.
2. January 21, 2013: Church of Scientology attorney Jeffrey K. Riffer
of Elkins, Kalt, Weintraub, Reuben, Gartside LLP, sent a legal threat
letter to David C. Vigilante, Senior Vice President & Associate General
Counsel of Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. as counsel for CNN. The
threat was an attempt to kill Anderson Cooper's 360 piece on the
culture of physical violence inside the Church of Scientology,
particularly as described in Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear. CNN
ignored the threat. Inside the Church of Scientology aired on January
23, 2013.
Tags: 2012, 2013, Anderson Cooper, CNN, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood,
and the Prison of Belief, Jeffrey Riffer, Katie Holmes, Lawrence Wright,
Legal, Maureen Orth, Threats, Tom Cruise, Vanity Fair
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Mareka Brousseau and the Loss of Childhood in Scientology Inc's Sea Org
August 5, 2014, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsC86zm8qg
Mareka Brousseau was born a third generation Scientologist. She
discusses her childhood and the harsh conditions in Sea Org nurseries.
Mareka signed a Sea Org contract when she was nine years old. Mareka's
mother and stepfather are Haydn and Lucy James.
Her husband John Brousseau did a couple of amazingly revealing
interviews with Tony Ortega.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnins...
Tags: Facebook, Google, John Brousseau, Lucy James, Mareka Brousseau, Quicky,
Sea Org, Tony Ortega, Twitter
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Mareka Brousseau compares growing up in Scientology to The Hunger Games
August 5, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2014/08/05/mareka-brousseau-compares-growing-up-in-scientology-to-the-hunger-games/
We've talked to Mareka Brousseau numerous times for stories at the
Village Voice and the Underground Bunker. And she was a key character
in John Sweeney's 2010 BBC special, The Secrets of Scientology. And now
Jeffrey Augustine has given us a treat and interviewed Mareka at length
for the Surviving Scientology podcast.
It's really eye-opening to hear about Scientology's attitudes toward
children from someone who actually grew up in the church. Mareka's
account is bleak. She talks to Jeff about growing up with Sea Org
parents who are too busy 'clearing the planet' to have much to do with
their kids.
Tags: 2010, 2015, Abortion, BBC, Cadet Org, Jeffrey Augustine, John
Brousseau, John Sweeney, Judge Richard Rico, Judge Ronald Sohigian, Laura
DeCrescenzo, Mareka Brousseau, Sea Org, The Secrets of Scientology, Village
Voice
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The Most Ethical Group On Earth
August 5, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-most-ethical-group-on-earth/
Some of you may have noticed this item in the Sunday Funnies at the
Underground Bunker.
I found it a bit disturbing, but not for the usual Valley money
grubbing reasons.
This is the poster promoting the event:
Tags: 2000, 2006, 2008, Disconnection, Freewinds, James Barbour, New York,
Quicky, Sunday Funnies, Underground Bunker, Wikipedia
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Attn David Miscavige: Scientologist Louis Farrakhan Calls for the Murder of
Police Officers
August 5, 2015, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2015/08/05/attn-david-miscavige-scientologist-louis-farrakhan-calls-for-the-murder-of-police-officers/
In a shocking YouTube video, Scientologist and Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan calls for black people to rise up and kill white police
officers as retribution for the black people who have been killed by
police officers:
Scientology has done no good for Farrakhan. Scientology's
self-proclaimed "Tech" has not given Farrakhan any solutions beyond
calling for the murder of cops.
Scientology claims to be about creating "a world without war, crime, or
insanity" and yet Farrakhan calls for murdering police officers.
Tags: 2012, Alex Jones, Chairman of the Board, Church of Scientology
International, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Legal, Louis Farrakhan, Murder,
Nation of Islam, Police, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Suppressive
Person, Tom Cruise, YouTube
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Debbie Cook Revisited
August 5, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/debbie-cook-revisited/
It's been some time since any news about Debbie Cook has surfaced. Then
last weekend Tony Ortega posted that she has just published a book on
Amazon about recovering from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue.
Although I haven't spoken to Debbie in years, I have thought about her
and Wayne many times and after reading some of the comments on Tony's
blog, I felt some background information might be of interest to fill
in a few blanks and perhaps dispel some misconceptions.
There hasn't really been a reason for me to write about this before.
Marty covered the activities of her case and the subsequent settlement
on his blog at the time and I concurred with what he said.
Tags: 2007, 2011, Amazon, Blow Drill, Bob Keenan, Clearwater, Commodore's
Messenger Organization, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Denmark, Disconnection,
Elliot Abelson, Facebook, Flag Service Organization, Guillaume Lesevre,
Hacienda, Hacienda Gardens, Janet Reitman, Kathy True, Knowledge Report, Marc
Headley, Marc Yager, Marty Rathbun, New Year's Eve, North Carolina, OT,
Quicky, Ray Jeffrey, Rehabilitation Project Force, Religious Technology
Center, Russia, San Antonio, Sea Org, Sec Check, Taiwan, Tampa Bay Times,
Texas, The Hole, Tony Ortega, Touch Assist, USA Today, Wayne Baumgarten,
Yahoo News
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Nick Lister Joins Staff at the Tampa Church of Scientology
August 5, 2015, Growing Up In Scientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKQ9CzkeHU
Tags: Nick Lister, Quicky, Tampa
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Sky to Air Scientology Documentary in U.K., Ireland in September
August 5, 2015, Georg Szalai, Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sky-air-scientology-documentary-uk-813273
Sky said Wednesday that it will air Scientology documentary Going Clear
in September.
The pan-European pay TV giant has been holding off on setting an air
date as it was reviewing its plans amid concerns that the airing could
cause legal issues in Northern Ireland. Sky originally planned to air
the doc in April, but put those plans on ice because Northern Ireland
is not subject to Britain's 2013 Defamation Act, which observers said
could expose Sky to libel claims there.
The doc, which has already been screening in British theaters, will air
on the company's Sky Atlantic network across the U.K., including
Northern Ireland, and Ireland next month, the pay TV giant said
Wednesday.
Tags: 2013, Alex Gibney, Europe, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of
Belief, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief,
Ireland, Lawrence Wright, Northern Ireland, Rupert Murdoch, Scientology
Documentary, Sky Atlantic, UK
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What Really Goes On at Scientology's Narconon Facilities
August 5, 2015, Growing Up In Scientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tECwsaKjNMw
Tags: Narconon, Quicky
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What really happens at a Scientology rehab? Nick Lister dishes on the
Narconon experience
August 5, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2015/08/05/what-really-happens-at-a-scientology-drug-rehab-nick-lister-dishes-on-the-narconon-experience/
Hey, we're still recovering from last night's wild time in London.
Thankfully, Aaron Smith-Levin has sent over a couple of new videos
interview Nick Lister in their series, "Growing Up Scientology." We'll
let Aaron introduce them...
In this first clip Nick talks about his time at Scientology's biggest
drug rehab facility, Narconon Arrowhead, located two hours east of
Oklahoma City. When it's convenient, Scientology claims it has no
relationship to or responsibility for the Narcnonon organization. At
Scientology events, it's another story - leader David Miscavige openly
talks about Narconon as a branch of the church that's intended to
expand Scientology's influence.
As Tony has documented many times, Narconon doesn't actually deliver
drug counseling, but instead puts its patients through Scientology
drills - the same drills you get in the church itself. The rehab
program is a sequence of three steps 1) Scientology's "purification
rundown" 2) Scientology's communications drills called "Training
Routines" and 3) basic Scientology auditing processes called "Objective
Processing."
Tags: Aaron Smith-Levin, Ashtrays, BBC, Clearwater, Conway Hall, David
Miscavige, Hartley Patterson, Humfrey Hunter, John Sweeney, Jon Atack,
London, Martin Padfield, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Narconon staff,
Niacin, Nick Lister, Objective Process, Objective Processing, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma City, Quicky, Sara Goldberg, Sea Org, Silvertail Books, Tampa,
Training Routines
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Florida man sues medical sleep testing company after its dapper CEO forced
Scientology on him
August 5, 2016, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2016/08/05/florida-man-sues-medical-sleep-testing-company-after-its-dapper-ceo-forced-scientology-on-him/
(Blackstone Medical Services CEO Vick Tipnes)
Another lawsuit against an employer accused of forcing Scientology on
an employee was filed this week, this time involving a Florida man who
alleges that the CEO of a Tampa medical company harassed him and
ultimately fired him because he wouldn't subject himself to Scientology
courses.
We've seen this kind of thing numerous times in recent years, including
a dentist in Oregon, a chiropractor in Florida, and a plastics company
in Pasadena. This time, the employer is a man named Vick Tipnes who
maintains a somewhat eye-opening page about himself at his company's
website. Tipnes writes that he was born in London but moved to Florida
as a child, and then worked as a car salesman as he looked for business
opportunities.
Tags: 2012, 2014, 2015, Blackstone Medical Services, Bunting v. Blackstone
Medical Services, David Bunting, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
Florida, Florida Commission on Human Relations, Grant Cardone, Hillsborough
County, Jiten Master, LinkedIn, London, Medical, Noah Storch, Oregon,
Pasadena, Religious harassment, Tampa, Vick Tipnes
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Nancy Cartwright: Just Another Scientology Celebrity Pawn
August 5, 2016, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2016/08/05/nancy-cartwright-just-another-scientology-celebrity-pawn/
Nancy Cartwright just did a video in which she attacked Going Clear.
After watching the video, I've concluded that Cartwright is just
another Scientology celebrity pawn who has been played to do the
bidding of the Office of Special Affairs.
OSA may not have given Nancy the news: Going Clear earned seven Emmy
nominations and won three Emmy's. Going Clear also made the Oscar short
list for Best Documentary. Alex Gibney won an Oscar for Best
Documentary Feature for his 2007 work Taxi to the Dark Side.
In Nancy's video she uses the same tired old PR line and tells people
to find out for themselves what Scientology is by reading a book. Okay.
I have met this requirement and more. I have found out for myself what
Scientology really is and does and I think it is a malicious and
dishonest criminal Cult. And I am hardly alone in my informed opinion.
Tags: 2007, Aaron Smith-Levin, Alex Gibney, Alexander Jentzsch, Apollo,
Basics, Celebrity, Celebrity Centre, Child labor, Congress, Cult, Dianetics,
Disconnection, Documentary, Fair Game, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood,
and the Prison of Belief, IRS, John Travolta, Karen de la Carriere, Kirstie
Alley, L. Ron Hubbard, Marcab, Nancy Cartwright, Office of Special Affairs,
OT, OT VIII, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force, Scientology celebrity,
Scientology executive, Sea Org, Survival Rundown, Tax, Tom Cruise, Xenu
=======================================
Photos: See Inside Harlem's New Scientology Church and Community Center
August 5, 2016, Brendan Krisel, Harlem Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/photos-see-inside-harlem-s-new-scientology-church-community-center
The Church of Scientology has landed in Harlem, and it's opening its
doors to the community. The religion has set up a mega center on 125th
Street between First and Second avenues. The complex is made up of two
buildings, a community center and a church located two doors down.
Sandwiched in between the buildings stands a branch of the New York
Public Library.
Tags: E-meter, Harlem, Keisha Latty, Sunday service, The Way to Happiness
=======================================
Regraded Being
August 5, 2016, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/friday-regraded-being-57/
And just for good measure, RB forwarded the promotion this strip is
based on:
Tags: Quicky, Regraded Being
=======================================
An unusual Scientology advertisement leads to new intel on secretive 'Int
Base'
August 5, 2017, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2017/08/05/an-unusual-scientology-advertisement-leads-to-new-intel-on-secretive-int-base/
(The 'Cine Castle' at Int Base, home to the studios of Golden Era
Productions)
We have an intriguing item today that appears to be rather modest, but
in investigating it, it opened up a new window on a place we never lose
interest in: Scientology's Int Base.
The item we're talking about was an ad that was placed on a closed
Facebook group for a union of Los Angeles set painters. You know, the
folks who give TV or movie backdrops the right look for whatever
historical era or mood you're going for. These are very talented people
who know how to make a surface come alive with some paint and some
know-how.
Tags: 1970, 1987, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016, Amy Scobee,
Apollo, BBC, Christi Mullins, Claire Headley, CMO Int, Commodore's Messenger
Organization, David Miscavige, Diana Hubbard, Facebook, Golden Era, Golden
Era Productions, Hollywood, Int Base, John Sweeney, Los Angeles, Marc
Headley, Massacre Canyon, Mike Rinder, Quicky, Roanne Horwich, Ron Miscavige,
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me, Scientology executive,
Sea Org, Tampa Bay Times, The Hole
=======================================
Critical Q&A #120
August 5, 2017, Chris Shelton, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZM1UFtLp6s
The show where I answer your questions. Please leave any comments or
feedback in the comments section here below. I see everything and want
to hear from you.
SHOP FOR CRITICAL MERCHANDISE
http://shop.spreadshirt.com/chrisshelton
Tags: Audio, Critic, Quicky, Scientology: A to Xenu
=======================================
Scientology End Phenomena
August 5, 2017, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-end-phenomena/
At the end of a process in Scientology, it isn't enough for a PC
(Pre-Clear; basically anyone receiving auditing) to say "Thanks, I feel
a little better," and walk away. Likewise, "I feel like I'm done," or
"You know?I think I've gone as far I can go with this," doesn't signal
the end of a session. "I'm already in PT (present time)," or "Nah, I
really don't believe in past lives," will not be accepted as an "end
phenomenon"-EP for short-in the Church of Scientology.
Unlike other therapies, L. Ron Hubbard thought it necessary to append
specific EPs to every auditing process, rundown, course, or level of
his Bridge to Total Freedom. Rarely, have other practices in the field
of mental health made such conceits. Nor guaranteed unqualified cures
or promised patients they wouldn't relapse. LRH never had such
reservations.
Why couldn't he have left well enough alone? Why did he feel he had to
make such fantastic claims? Why did he have to append specific EPs to
the end of everything? Did he really believe his processes produced
these phenomenal "gains" on everyone, uniformly, without exception? Was
the man so sure of his genius that he couldn't conceive his processes
wouldn't work unvaryingly, one hundred percent of the time? Or did he
devise these EPs as simply another carrot to lure people up the Bridge?
Tags: 1970, Bridge to Total Freedom, Case Supervisor, Clear, Critic, David
Miscavige, DC8, Dianetics, E-meter, End Phenomena, Ethics, L. Ron Hubbard,
Scientology organization, Terra Cognita, Word Clearing
=======================================
?Qu? es la iglesia de cienciolog?a y por qu? est? tomando fue...
August 5, 2018, Canal1, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VafdYC4oZCY
Vea la nota en https://canal1.com.
co/noticias/que-es-la-cienciologia-y-por-que-esta-tomando-fuerza-en-colombia/
Tags: Colombia, Quicky
=======================================
Aaron Smith-Levin Life After Scientology Episode 19
August 5, 2018, Ron Miscavige, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0hl-Z0egE
Aaron's YouTube channel reads as follows:
Description
Growing Up in Scientology is here to discuss what it's like growing up
in the Church of Scientology as a 2nd or 3rd generation member and how
growing up in Scientology, whether as a public, staff member or Sea Org
member shapes one's worldview.
Tags: Aaron Smith-Levin, Clear, David Miscavige, Facebook, Growing Up In
Scientology, OT, Quicky, Sea Org, Twitter
=======================================
California is on fire, and Scientology naturally sees a golden recruiting
opportunity
August 5, 2018, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2018/08/05/california-is-on-fire-and-scientology-naturally-sees-a-golden-recruiting-opportunity/
Rod Keller has another sobering look at what Scientology's "Volunteer
Ministers" are really up to...
The Carr fire has been burning in Northern California since July 25.
It's a large and destructive fire, and despite the work of thousands of
firefighters it's no more than 37 percent contained. Redding,
California remains at risk with more than 90,000 residents. For
Scientology the fire is an opportunity to put on the yellow Volunteer
Minister T-shirts and head north. As we have seen during the Hurricane
Harvey recovery and more recently in Manchester, England the VMs are
promoted as one of the most important disaster response teams on the
planet. And as with previous disasters the VMs are gathering donated
supplies at the last minute rather than prepare supplies in advance as
major relief agencies do.
[Carr fire area]
Tags: California, Donation, England, Facebook, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane
Maria, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Los Angeles,
Manchester, Mission, Puerto Rico, Quicky, Red Cross, Rod Keller, Sacramento,
San Francisco, Tent, Volunteer Ministers
=======================================
Clear on the 1st Dynamic? I Think Not
August 5, 2018, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/clear-on-the-1st-dynamic-i-think-not/
Our old friend Terra Cognita has provided another thought-provoking
essay.
Clear on the 1st Dynamic? I Think Not
When people weren't going "Clear" during Scientology auditing, L. Ron
Hubbard-or someone within the church; I don't know who-decided that
pre-OT processing only cleared people on the First Dynamic. "Clears"
were told that they no longer had their "own reactive mind." In other
words, people who'd been audited on Dianetics and the Grades were now
superhuman and self-determined, but still screwed up on their other
seven Dynamics. Apparently, seven-eighths of their problems and
hang-ups still existed.
Tags: Clear, Dianetics, E-meter, Ethics, Google, L. Ron Hubbard, Mental
Health, OT, OT 7, Quicky, Terra Cognita
=======================================
Critical Q&A #171
August 5, 2018, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
https://mncriticalthinking.com/2018/08/05/critical-qa-171/
The weekly show where I answer viewer questions left for me in the
comment section of my Q&A videos or sent to me by email at
AskChri...@gmail.com. This week, the questions I answer are:
(1) Do you ever worry or feel that OSA may, in fact, spend money on
fake Patreons for you, or does that explicitly contravene the edict
that an ex-member/SP may be "ruined utterly"? The way the policy is
applied certainly does not seem to be either equal or make sense to me
- for example, an OSA operative infiltrated some people's business for
several years while being quite a good sales person & was therefore
temporary an asset for them (I seem to recall). Actually, there are
countless instances of this "policy" being applied rather haphazardly,
so perhaps the question above isn't that silly after all!
(2) In your Santa Barbara years, have you ever come across a dude named
Reed Slatkin? He worked at the Celebrity Center between approximately
1975 and 1984, then moved to Santa Barbara and started offering
investment management services to fellow Scientologists (among the
high-profile Scientologists he roped in were Anne Archer, Giovanni
Ribisi, Greta Van Susteren, and Sky Dayton). In reality, it was a Ponzi
scheme, which gradually unraveled between mid-1990s and 2001, when he
was arrested. He pleaded guilty in 2003 (he actually claimed something
along the lines of "Scientology made me do it", but the Church retained
Latham & Watkins to fight the allegations). He was sentenced to 14
years of prison, served ten, was released to a halfway house in Long
Beach in 2013, and died in 2015.
Tags: 1975, 1984, 1990, 2001, 2003, 2013, 2015, Anne Archer, Celebrity
Centre, Critic, David Miscavige, Giovanni Ribisi, Greta Van Susteren,
Lawrence Wright, Office of Special Affairs, Ponzi scheme, Quicky, Reed
Slatkin, Santa Barbara, Sea Org, Sky Dayton, Tom Cruise
=======================================
Correlation Without Causation
August 5, 2019, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/correlation-without-causation/
Scientology loves to claim they are responsible for "Clearing the
planet" and "bettering society" - proclaiming they are "slaying the
four modern horsemen of the apocalypse, drugs, illiteracy, criminality
and immorality." They routinely take credit for all sorts of things:
reducing crime in Colombia by 50%, increasing literacy rates in third
world countries, eradicating gang violence etc. They find a statistic
and then claim "we handed out 74,000 copies of WTH and the number of
divorces in Denmark is lowest in a decade. " It is clear (in their
minds) that this is incontrovertible evidence that "WTH solved divorces
in Denmark" and "we are making a better society thanks to the IAS and
COB"... This scenario is repeated in every scientology major event ever
held. (They ignore their role when the divorce rate goes back up - that
of course is the psychs at work).
This is what is known as correlation without causation. Less eggs were
laid in Georgia last year than the year before. More red M&Ms were
consumed than ever last year. Thus eating red M&Ms causes chickens not
lay eggs. This is scientology "logic".
Scientology also loves graphs - though they often have no numbers on
them and are not verifiable in any way.
Tags: 2011, Chairman of the Board, Clear, Colombia, Denmark, Facebook,
Freedom Medal Winner, Georgia, International Association of Scientologists,
Meghan Fialkoff, New Yorker, Quicky, Twitter
=======================================
Fraser Institute study proves the average Canadian pays nearly five trillion
dollars in taxes per year
August 5, 2019, Mary Gillis, satire, The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2019/08/fraser-institute-study-proves-the-average-canadian-pays-nearly-five-trillion-dollars-in-taxes-per-year/
VANCOUVER ? The Fraser Institute has released its annual 'Tax Freedom
Day' report, an estimate of the tax burden of the average Canadian
which this year adds up to a whopping five trillion dollars per taxpayer.
"In 2018, the average Canadian family earned an income of $88,865 and
paid total taxes equaling $4,988,921,656,429.12, approximately
5600000000% of their income," the study says. "Individuals in Canada
are not only paying more taxes than individuals in any other country,
they are each paying more taxes than the entire population of any other
country."
Despite some questioning the methodology of the study, which not only
includes the taxes paid by individual Canadians but also those paid by
corporations, adds in the GDP of Liechtenstein, Paraguay, and
Madagascar, then multiplies that by 67 before dividing the result by
the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin, most Canadian
news services are satisfied enough with the conservative think-tank's
conclusion to report it as fact.
Tags: 2018, Canada, DougWiki, Fraser Institute, Liechtenstein, Tax
=======================================
Politician Pride Parade participation matters to voters: expert
August 5, 2019, Lasia Kretzel, CityNews
https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/08/05/politician-pride-parade-participation-matters-to-voters-expert/
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) - As Vancouver Pride week winds down for another
year, voters are taking stock of which politicians did, and more
importantly, didn't take part in the festivities, according to one
political expert.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was joined by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
and the Green Party's Elizabeth May in walking a few blocks together to
show solidarity with the LGBTQ community.
Missing among them was the leader of the official opposition,
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer.
Tags: 2015, Andrew Scheer, Canada, Coquitlam, Daniel Schow, DougWiki,
Elizabeth May, Green Party, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, LGBTQ, Maxime
Bernier, Ontario New Democratic Party, People's Party of Canada, Politician,
Pride Parade, Regina, Richmond, Stephen Harper, Vancouver, Vancouver Pride
=======================================
Scientology is the coolest religion on earth, video proves
August 5, 2019, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2019/08/05/scientology-is-the-coolest-religion-on-earth-video-proves/
Copenhagen has done it again.
Just when if feels like it couldn't get any more miserable in this
terrible modern world we live in, and the news is so grim we try not to
catch sight of the national news, along come our Danish friends to
remind us that things could always be worse: we could be Scientologists!
You might remember a previous incident, way back in 2011, when the
Advanced Org in Copenhagen put out one of the best Scientology hip-hop
videos of all time, with staffers lip-syncing their way through a Chill
EB song written for the International Association of Scientologists
(IAS). The song was titled "Dauntless, Defiant, and Resolute" - the IAS
slogan - and with its break dancers and a cameo appearance of a
Mercedes-Benz convertible, it's one of our favorite things ever.
Tags: 2011, 2017, 2018, Advanced Org, Birthday Game, Chill EB, Clear,
Clearwater, Copenhagen, David Miscavige, DC, Dublin, Facebook, Free Zone,
Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Kaohsiung, Mercedes-
Benz, Miami, Mike Rinder, Milano, Police, Purple Heart, Quicky, Rod Keller,
Sacramento, Twin Cities, Venezuela, Washington, Youth for Human Rights
International
=======================================
Video: Trudeau, Singh and May walk together in Vancouver Pride Parade; Scheer
skips event
August 5, 2019, Canadian Press, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/video-trudeau-singh-and-may-walk-together-in-vancouver-pride-parade-scheer/
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party
leader Elizabeth May put aside their partisan differences ahead of
October's election and marched together at Vancouver's Pride Parade on
Sunday. Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer did not attend.
Tags: Andrew Scheer, Canadian Press, Conservative Party of Canada, DougWiki,
Elizabeth May, Green Party, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Ontario New
Democratic Party, Pride Parade, Vancouver, Vancouver Pride
=======================================
Today in Scientlology web page:
http://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/today.html
August 5 in Scientlology web page:
http://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/days/08-05.html
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Church Of Scientology Settles Dispute With Internet Provider
August 5, 1996, Seattle Times
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19960805&slug=2342768
The Church of Scientology has settled a copyright dispute with an
Internet provider that many in the computer industry worried would
restrict freedom of expression in cyberspace.
Tags: Netcom, Religious Technology Center
=======================================
Internet Provider Settles Scientology Copyright Suit
August 5, 1996, Associated Press
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1996/Internet-Provider-Settles-Scientology-Copyright-Suit/id-b4cea42bd90465f1610ed8082f794f2a
SAN JOSE, CALIF. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) _ The Church of Scientology has
settled a copyright dispute with an Internet provider that many in the
computer industry worried would restrict freedom of expression in
cyberspace.
The church and Netcom On-Line Communication Services, one of the
nation's largest Internet access providers, agreed not to discuss
details of the out-of-court settlement reached Friday in San Jose.
They did say, however, that the online service has posted a warning to
its subscribers telling them not to use Netcom to "unlawfully
distribute the intellectual property of others."
Tags: 1995, Copyright, Dennis Erlich, Glendale, Hollywood, Netcom, Quicky,
Religious Technology Center, San Jose, Tom Klemesrud
=======================================
No answers in Scientology case
August 5, 1996, Rose Aguilar, CNET
http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-220158.html
Many Internet legal analysts are disappointed by an out-of-court
settlement between Netcom and the Church of Scientology because now
they"ll have to wait for another case to come to light before a court
sets a firm precedent on Internet access providers' liability for
online copyright infringement.
Tags: Dennis Erlich, Helena Kobrin, Judge Whyte, Netcom
=======================================
SCIENTOLOGISTS SETTLE LAWSUIT AGAINST INTERNET ACCESS FIRM
August 5, 1996, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/08/05/scientologists-settle-lawsuit-against-internet-access-firm/471d9806-943d-4e00-a006-e35269e56618/
A lawsuit that many in the on-line community feared would set a
precedent restricting freedom of expression on the Internet has been
settled out of court.
Netcom On-Line Communications Services Inc. announced Saturday it had
settled the intellectual property dispute initiated by Religious
Technology Center (RTC), a wing of the Church of Scientology.
RTC had sought to prohibit Netcom subscribers from posting sacred
writings expressing the church's belief that man's spiritual problems
stem from an intergalactic holocaust 75 million years ago. The church
claimed some of the writings were protected under U.S. copyright laws.
Both parties agreed not to disclose specific details of the settlement.
Tags: 1993, 1995, Lawyer, Netcom, Quicky, Religious Technology Center
=======================================
Battlefield Travolta
August 5, 1999, Enzo Di Matteo, NOW Magazine
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/18/49/News/feature2.html
It's been a difficult couple of years for Scientology, which is trying
to polish its fringe image as it awaits word from Revenue Canada about
its application for charitable status.
But positive PR may be coming to a theatre near you. Screen star John
Travolta, Scientology's most famous promoter, has embarked on a film
adaptation of Battlefield Earth, the doomsday sci-fi thriller penned by
the church's messianic founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Tags: Al Buttnor, Author Services Inc, Battlefield Earth, John Travolta,
Montreal, Narconon, Xenu
=======================================
Doc suspended for prescribing Valium
August 5, 2001, AP, The Trentonian
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2178956&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6
A doctor was suspended for a year for improperly prescribing Valium to
unlicensed Church of Scientology workers caring for a church member who
had suffered a mental breakdown.
Dr. David I. Minkoff, 53, of Clearwater, Fla., also a Scientologist,
will lose his medical license for a year and will be required to
practice under probation for two more years, the Board of Medicine
ruled Friday. He was fined $10,000.
Tags: David Minkoff, Joan Wood, Lisa McPherson
=======================================
Mayor and his pharmacy sued
August 5, 2003, Tom O'Leary, Press-Enterprise
https://web.archive.org/web/20090309140016/http://www.press-enterprise.com/newsarchive/2003/08/05/1060062559.html
The lawsuit is the second time Stone's work as a pharmacist has thrust
him into the spotlight during a political campaign.
The first instance came about four years ago when Stone admitted
committing four improper business practices. In exchange for that
admission, 16 other accusations lodged against him by the state Board
of Pharmacy were dismissed.
In December 1999, Stone said he agreed to settle the case because he
wanted to put the unpleasant experience behind him. He said all the
serious allegations against him were dismissed and his attorney showed
state officials that he had complied with the law.
Tags: Jeff Stone, Riverside County, Temecula
=======================================
Debunking a movement / Scientollywood
August 5, 2005, Carl Kozlowski, Pasadena Weekly
http://web.archive.org/web/20050806235055/www.pasadenaweekly.com/features/feature/feature.html
Exposing some of the unsavory claims that Tom Cruise, John Travolta and
other celebrities would rather you didn't know about Scientology
Tags: Arnaldo Lerma, Building Management Services, Celebrity Centre, Cult
Awareness Network, Fair Game, Graham Berry, Jack Parsons, Michelle Stith, OT,
Richard Leiby, Robert Vaughn Young, Sea Org, Steven Fishman, Timothy Miller,
Tom Cruise, Tory Christman, Uwe Geertz, Vistaril, Xenu
=======================================
Margarita Lopez stays mum through Scientology flap
August 5, 2005, Paul Schindler, Downtown Express
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_117/margaritalopezstays.html
In a series of three stories and an editorial that began Monday, the
New York Post reported that Lopez was the key City Council player in
securing $630,000 in city funds for the New York Rescue Workers
Detoxification Project, a center on Fulton St. that offers September 11
first responders treatments based on large amounts of Vitamin B-3,
sauna baths and exercise, in lieu of traditional medical therapies. The
treatment is based on theories developed by L. Ron Hubbard,
Scientology's late founder. Scientology's most famous exponent, Tom
Cruise, was on hand with Lopez for the center's groundbreaking.
The Post reported that the treatment is widely dismissed by medical
professionals and noted that the adverse public reaction led the
firefighters' union to pull its support for the project.
Tags: Detox, John Carmichael, Margarita Lopez, Tom Cruise
=======================================
The gullible age
August 5, 2007, Peter Millar, The Sunday Times
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2198063.ece
A man who holds no truck with established religion is unsurprisingly
unlikely to have much good to say about Scientology, which purports to
use scientific tools such as its controversial "E-meter". "It's purely
made-up. It just taps into some 'gullibiligy'. They find some film star
or somebody like Tom Cruise or whatever his name is who's thick as two
short planks and he becomes a sort of advertisement."
Tags: Richard Dawkins
=======================================
Human Rights: A Cynical Perspective
August 5, 2009, DatsumJB, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFhqHTTD7s
From Ron's Journal '68, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard outlines why
human rights are so important for Scientology. "Human rights for me,
but not for thee."
Tags: Quicky, Ron's Journal
=======================================
Scientology Leader David Miscavige caught lying on Nightline 1992
August 5, 2009, EnturbulationStation, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRR2H9Zi5ZE
Watch from about 1:25 until 2:02
Miscavige tries to pull a typical fast one but Ted Koppel stops and
asks "who was the sponsor...". Little David flickers his eyelids and
then stumbles, "I have a copy and...." Then he continues on with the
LRonHubbard sounding, "Oh yes! oh yes! oh yes!...." and then the Tommy
Davis sounding, "major, major, major...."
David Miscavige channeling LRonHubbard, Tommy Davis and Tom Cruise ALL
IN 37 SECONDS!!!!
Tags: 1992, David Miscavige, Nightline, Quicky, SEC, Siberia, Ted Koppel, Tom
Cruise, Tommy Davis, USA
=======================================
Scientology's Creepy New Uniforms
August 5, 2009, Ryan Tate, Gawker
https://gawker.com/5330967/scientologys-creepy-new-uniforms
Want to work in one of Scientology's fresh new "Ideal Org" churches?
Then get ready to put on your 20-piece uniform, mandatory for all cult
staff. Planetary humanity is not going to be perfected by slobs, after
all.
These uniforms are manufactured by some sort of magical logistics
pipeline called a "conveyor belt" for the "Ideal Org," a purportedly
superior new type of church, according to International Scientology
News. The uniform is intended to unite staff on "six continents" and
help them look the part of "emissaries of a new civilization."
Tags: Ideal Org, Richard Tyler, Swing coat
=======================================
Tom Cruise and Scientology: A Very French Kiss
August 5, 2009, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/08/tom_cruise_and_2.php
One Day One Destiny - Tom Cruise (FR English subs) from Sic Transit on
Vimeo.A tip of the hat to Wise Beard Man, Mark Bunker, for bringing
this French television documentary to our attention. "One Day One
Destiny" is a fascinating look at Tom Cruise and his history in
Scientology.Remember that video of a crazed-looking Cruise explaining
how only Scientologists can help at a car accident? Well, here's some
eye-opening context for that video, and plenty of other background on
the star that few others have put together so well.Scientology watchers
will appreciate the terrific interviews with Marc Headley, Karen
Pressley, Bruce Hines and other former Scientologists who watched
Cruise become Scientology leader David Miscavige's special project.
Enjoy!
Tags: Bruce Hines, David Miscavige, Destin, Karen Pressley, Marc Headley,
Mark Bunker, Quicky, Tom Cruise, Vimeo, Wise Beard Man
=======================================
The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 25: Xenu, Galactic Overlord
August 5, 2011, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/08/xenu_top_25_crippling_scientology.php
But we think it's time Xenu got more credit for all that he's done.
Think about it, for about 19 years, after L. Ron Hubbard dreamed the
sucker up in a pill-popping and boozy haze while sailing the Atlantic
and Mediterranean in the mid-1960s, until the Los Angeles Times finally
made Xenu's story public during the Larry Wollersheim trial in 1986,
only high-level Scientologists even knew that the alien leader existed.
UPDATE: Ah, the beauty of a blog -- instant updating! Maybe for many of
us the L.A. Times was our first glimpse of our mighty galactic hero,
but I've just been reminded that one of the giants of Scientology
reporting, Richard Leiby, beat the Times by five years!
Tags: 1960, 1981, 1986, 2009, ABC, CIA, Clearwater Sun, CNN, David Miscavige,
Dianetics, E-meter, Facebook, Hugh Urban, Jesus Christ, John Roberts, John
Travolta, KESQ, Lawrence Wollersheim, Los Angeles Times, Mediterranean,
Nathan Baca, New York, Operating Thetan, OT, OT III, OT VIII, Palm Springs,
Richard Leiby, South Park, Teegeeack, Tom Cruise, Tommy Davis, Xenu
=======================================
Movie Night at Scientology's New York "Org": The Village Voice Gets
Proselytized!
August 5, 2012, Tony Ortega, Runnin' Scared, Village Voice
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/08/scientology_andreas_heldal_lund_new_york_org.php
The image you see here means a lot to us at the underground bunker,
where we keep an eye on all things Scientology related. And on this
lazy Sunday morning, we hope you'll indulge us as we attempt to explain
what it represents.
Andreas Heldal-Lund, meet Chill EB.
Chill, meet the devil.
Tags: 1940, 1950, 1968, 1977, 2000, 2001, African-American, American Medical
Association, American Psychiatric Association, Andreas Heldal-Lund,
Anonymous, BBC, California, Chick Corea, Chill EB, Copenhagen, Critic, David
Love, David Miscavige, DC, Dianetics, eBay, Facebook, Geoffrey Lewis, Golden
Era Productions, Heber Jentzsch, International Association of Scientologists,
Jeff Jacobsen, Karin Spaink, Mark Bunker, Montreal, Movie, Nancy Cartwright,
Neil Gaiman, Netherlands, New York, New York City, Norman Berry, Norway,
Operation Clambake, OT, OT VII, Peter Alexander, Quicky, Sea Org, Sunday
Funnies, Sweden, The Master, Tom Cruise, Tory Christman, Twitter, Washington,
YouTube, Zenon Panoussis
=======================================
Emotions II: Play Acting Scientologists
August 5, 2013, Marty Rathbun, Moving On Up a Little Higher
https://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/emotions-ii-play-acting-scientologists/
Scientology culture is recognizable by its collective, synthetic
'cheerful' or 'enthusiastic' emotional tone. Scientologists learn to
put on a happy face. If they are seen without one, a fellow
Scientologist considers it his duty to 'handle' it. And that primarily
means making the person mentally deal with the life situation causing
the lower emotion so that he can easily mentally cope with putting on a
happy face in spite of it. In a Scientology group one is expected to
act happy. To display any emotion less than that results in
Scientologists almost instinctively interceding with a person's psyche
to remedy the perceived problem. A Scientologist learns eventually to
convincingly act happy all the time, even when he or she is feeling
deep sorrow, a sense of devastating loss, or is suffering pangs of
conscience.
Scientologists will bridle at the notion they are taught to play act
through life. But, the technology they are applying day in and day out
is plain:
'Force yourself to smile and you'll soon stop frowning. Force yourself
to laugh and you'll soon find something to laugh about. Wax
enthusiastic and you'll very soon feel so. A being causes his own
feelings.' - L. Ron Hubbard 25 August 1982
Tags: 1982, Amazon, Brooklyn, Memoirs of a Scientology Warrior, Quicky
=======================================
Miscavige The Magnificent
August 5, 2013, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/miscavige-the-magnificent/
Sheeple
The email below perfectly illustrates the "party lines" that are being
pushed within the corporate church to the sheeple.
All focus is on the magnificence of Dear Leader - even the "Ideal Orgs"
and "GAG II" take a backseat to recounting the glories of Miscavige.
Tags: 1960, 1993, AMA, Anatomy of the Human Mind Congress, Angie Blankenship,
AOLA, ASHO, Basics, Chairman of the Board, Class VI, Clear, Clearwater, CLO
EU, Coachman, Copenhagen, Cornerstone, David Miscavige, Denmark,
Disconnection, England, Europe, Field Staff Member, Flag Service
Organization, Golden Age of Knowledge, Hollywood, Ideal Org, International
Association of Scientologists, Jennifer Linson, Keep Scientology Working, L.
Ron Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard Way, Life Improvement Center, Madrid, Mental
breakdown, Miami, Mike Smith, Oak Cove, OT, OT 7, OT Ambassador, OT VII,
Portland, Purification Rundown, Quicky, Razzline, Religious Technology
Center, Saint Hill, Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, San Jose, Sea Org,
Sec Check, Squirrel, Starbucks, Tom Cruise, Walter Kotric, Whole Track, WISE
=======================================
Recon, it looks like The Church (CULT) Of Scientology Scarborough Mission
CLOSED, GONE!!!
August 5, 2013, RootedLinuxBrian, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKgGP_yY6zg
A little recon of mine, done on spare time. Looks like this is the end
of that mission.
Tags: Malvern, Mission, Sheridan Cyrus, Toronto, Video
=======================================
Will Shelly Miscavige Be Trotted Out at the Celebrity Centre Gala As a PR
Stunt?
August 5, 2013, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2013/08/05/will-shelly-miscavige-be-trotted-out-at-the-celebrity-centre-gala-as-a-pr-stunt/
(Previously unpublished photo of Shelly Miscavige circa 1990 courtesy
of Claudio and Renata Lugli)
Our celebrity sources in the Church of Scientology tell us that church
leader David Miscavige is planning a bold stunt later this month at the
44th annual Celebrity Centre gala in Hollywood, California.
On July 8 we revealed that Leah Remini was breaking away from
Scientology in part because she dared to ask, persistently, about the
disappearance of Miscavige's wife, Shelly, who hasn't been seen by the
general membership of the church in six years. Since then, the
mainstream media has given momentum to a question that has been asked
for years in Internet forums: "Where's Shelly?"
Tags: 1927, 1973, 1982, 1990, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, Bodhi
Elfman, California, Celebrity Centre, Church of Scientology International,
Church of Spiritual Technology, David Miscavige, Golden Age of Tech, Heber
Jentzsch, Hemet, Hollywood, John Travolta, Karen de la Carriere, Kelly
Preston, Kirstie Alley, Leah Remini, Los Angeles, Marty Rathbun, Mike Rinder,
Nancy Cartwright, Quicky, Renata Lugli, Shelly Miscavige, The Hole
=======================================
Empty Threats: Church of Scientology Legal Threat Letters to Vanity Fair and
CNN
August 5, 2014, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2014/08/05/empty-threats-church-of-scientology-legal-threat-letters-to-vanity-and-cnn/
1. August 16, 2012: Church of Scientology attorney Jeffrey K. Riffer of
Elkins, Kalt, Weintraub, Reuben, Gartside LLP, sent a legal threat
letter to Graydon Carter, Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine. The threat was
an attempt to kill a story about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Vanity
Fair ignored the threat. Written by Maureen Orth, What Katie Didn't
Know appeared in the October 2012 edition of Vanity Fair.
2. January 21, 2013: Church of Scientology attorney Jeffrey K. Riffer
of Elkins, Kalt, Weintraub, Reuben, Gartside LLP, sent a legal threat
letter to David C. Vigilante, Senior Vice President & Associate General
Counsel of Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. as counsel for CNN. The
threat was an attempt to kill Anderson Cooper's 360 piece on the
culture of physical violence inside the Church of Scientology,
particularly as described in Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear. CNN
ignored the threat. Inside the Church of Scientology aired on January
23, 2013.
Tags: 2012, 2013, Anderson Cooper, CNN, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood,
and the Prison of Belief, Jeffrey Riffer, Katie Holmes, Lawrence Wright,
Legal, Maureen Orth, Threats, Tom Cruise, Vanity Fair
=======================================
Mareka Brousseau and the Loss of Childhood in Scientology Inc's Sea Org
August 5, 2014, SurvivingScientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsC86zm8qg
Mareka Brousseau was born a third generation Scientologist. She
discusses her childhood and the harsh conditions in Sea Org nurseries.
Mareka signed a Sea Org contract when she was nine years old. Mareka's
mother and stepfather are Haydn and Lucy James.
Her husband John Brousseau did a couple of amazingly revealing
interviews with Tony Ortega.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnins...
Tags: Facebook, Google, John Brousseau, Lucy James, Mareka Brousseau, Quicky,
Sea Org, Tony Ortega, Twitter
=======================================
Mareka Brousseau compares growing up in Scientology to The Hunger Games
August 5, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2014/08/05/mareka-brousseau-compares-growing-up-in-scientology-to-the-hunger-games/
We've talked to Mareka Brousseau numerous times for stories at the
Village Voice and the Underground Bunker. And she was a key character
in John Sweeney's 2010 BBC special, The Secrets of Scientology. And now
Jeffrey Augustine has given us a treat and interviewed Mareka at length
for the Surviving Scientology podcast.
It's really eye-opening to hear about Scientology's attitudes toward
children from someone who actually grew up in the church. Mareka's
account is bleak. She talks to Jeff about growing up with Sea Org
parents who are too busy 'clearing the planet' to have much to do with
their kids.
Tags: 2010, 2015, Abortion, BBC, Cadet Org, Jeffrey Augustine, John
Brousseau, John Sweeney, Judge Richard Rico, Judge Ronald Sohigian, Laura
DeCrescenzo, Mareka Brousseau, Sea Org, The Secrets of Scientology, Village
Voice
=======================================
The Most Ethical Group On Earth
August 5, 2014, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/the-most-ethical-group-on-earth/
Some of you may have noticed this item in the Sunday Funnies at the
Underground Bunker.
I found it a bit disturbing, but not for the usual Valley money
grubbing reasons.
This is the poster promoting the event:
Tags: 2000, 2006, 2008, Disconnection, Freewinds, James Barbour, New York,
Quicky, Sunday Funnies, Underground Bunker, Wikipedia
=======================================
Attn David Miscavige: Scientologist Louis Farrakhan Calls for the Murder of
Police Officers
August 5, 2015, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2015/08/05/attn-david-miscavige-scientologist-louis-farrakhan-calls-for-the-murder-of-police-officers/
In a shocking YouTube video, Scientologist and Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan calls for black people to rise up and kill white police
officers as retribution for the black people who have been killed by
police officers:
Scientology has done no good for Farrakhan. Scientology's
self-proclaimed "Tech" has not given Farrakhan any solutions beyond
calling for the murder of cops.
Scientology claims to be about creating "a world without war, crime, or
insanity" and yet Farrakhan calls for murdering police officers.
Tags: 2012, Alex Jones, Chairman of the Board, Church of Scientology
International, David Miscavige, Dianetics, Legal, Louis Farrakhan, Murder,
Nation of Islam, Police, Quicky, Religious Technology Center, Suppressive
Person, Tom Cruise, YouTube
=======================================
Debbie Cook Revisited
August 5, 2015, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/debbie-cook-revisited/
It's been some time since any news about Debbie Cook has surfaced. Then
last weekend Tony Ortega posted that she has just published a book on
Amazon about recovering from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue.
Although I haven't spoken to Debbie in years, I have thought about her
and Wayne many times and after reading some of the comments on Tony's
blog, I felt some background information might be of interest to fill
in a few blanks and perhaps dispel some misconceptions.
There hasn't really been a reason for me to write about this before.
Marty covered the activities of her case and the subsequent settlement
on his blog at the time and I concurred with what he said.
Tags: 2007, 2011, Amazon, Blow Drill, Bob Keenan, Clearwater, Commodore's
Messenger Organization, David Miscavige, Debbie Cook, Denmark, Disconnection,
Elliot Abelson, Facebook, Flag Service Organization, Guillaume Lesevre,
Hacienda, Hacienda Gardens, Janet Reitman, Kathy True, Knowledge Report, Marc
Headley, Marc Yager, Marty Rathbun, New Year's Eve, North Carolina, OT,
Quicky, Ray Jeffrey, Rehabilitation Project Force, Religious Technology
Center, Russia, San Antonio, Sea Org, Sec Check, Taiwan, Tampa Bay Times,
Texas, The Hole, Tony Ortega, Touch Assist, USA Today, Wayne Baumgarten,
Yahoo News
=======================================
Nick Lister Joins Staff at the Tampa Church of Scientology
August 5, 2015, Growing Up In Scientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKQ9CzkeHU
Tags: Nick Lister, Quicky, Tampa
=======================================
Sky to Air Scientology Documentary in U.K., Ireland in September
August 5, 2015, Georg Szalai, Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sky-air-scientology-documentary-uk-813273
Sky said Wednesday that it will air Scientology documentary Going Clear
in September.
The pan-European pay TV giant has been holding off on setting an air
date as it was reviewing its plans amid concerns that the airing could
cause legal issues in Northern Ireland. Sky originally planned to air
the doc in April, but put those plans on ice because Northern Ireland
is not subject to Britain's 2013 Defamation Act, which observers said
could expose Sky to libel claims there.
The doc, which has already been screening in British theaters, will air
on the company's Sky Atlantic network across the U.K., including
Northern Ireland, and Ireland next month, the pay TV giant said
Wednesday.
Tags: 2013, Alex Gibney, Europe, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of
Belief, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief,
Ireland, Lawrence Wright, Northern Ireland, Rupert Murdoch, Scientology
Documentary, Sky Atlantic, UK
=======================================
What Really Goes On at Scientology's Narconon Facilities
August 5, 2015, Growing Up In Scientology, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tECwsaKjNMw
Tags: Narconon, Quicky
=======================================
What really happens at a Scientology rehab? Nick Lister dishes on the
Narconon experience
August 5, 2015, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2015/08/05/what-really-happens-at-a-scientology-drug-rehab-nick-lister-dishes-on-the-narconon-experience/
Hey, we're still recovering from last night's wild time in London.
Thankfully, Aaron Smith-Levin has sent over a couple of new videos
interview Nick Lister in their series, "Growing Up Scientology." We'll
let Aaron introduce them...
In this first clip Nick talks about his time at Scientology's biggest
drug rehab facility, Narconon Arrowhead, located two hours east of
Oklahoma City. When it's convenient, Scientology claims it has no
relationship to or responsibility for the Narcnonon organization. At
Scientology events, it's another story - leader David Miscavige openly
talks about Narconon as a branch of the church that's intended to
expand Scientology's influence.
As Tony has documented many times, Narconon doesn't actually deliver
drug counseling, but instead puts its patients through Scientology
drills - the same drills you get in the church itself. The rehab
program is a sequence of three steps 1) Scientology's "purification
rundown" 2) Scientology's communications drills called "Training
Routines" and 3) basic Scientology auditing processes called "Objective
Processing."
Tags: Aaron Smith-Levin, Ashtrays, BBC, Clearwater, Conway Hall, David
Miscavige, Hartley Patterson, Humfrey Hunter, John Sweeney, Jon Atack,
London, Martin Padfield, Narconon, Narconon Arrowhead, Narconon staff,
Niacin, Nick Lister, Objective Process, Objective Processing, Oklahoma,
Oklahoma City, Quicky, Sara Goldberg, Sea Org, Silvertail Books, Tampa,
Training Routines
=======================================
Florida man sues medical sleep testing company after its dapper CEO forced
Scientology on him
August 5, 2016, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2016/08/05/florida-man-sues-medical-sleep-testing-company-after-its-dapper-ceo-forced-scientology-on-him/
(Blackstone Medical Services CEO Vick Tipnes)
Another lawsuit against an employer accused of forcing Scientology on
an employee was filed this week, this time involving a Florida man who
alleges that the CEO of a Tampa medical company harassed him and
ultimately fired him because he wouldn't subject himself to Scientology
courses.
We've seen this kind of thing numerous times in recent years, including
a dentist in Oregon, a chiropractor in Florida, and a plastics company
in Pasadena. This time, the employer is a man named Vick Tipnes who
maintains a somewhat eye-opening page about himself at his company's
website. Tipnes writes that he was born in London but moved to Florida
as a child, and then worked as a car salesman as he looked for business
opportunities.
Tags: 2012, 2014, 2015, Blackstone Medical Services, Bunting v. Blackstone
Medical Services, David Bunting, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
Florida, Florida Commission on Human Relations, Grant Cardone, Hillsborough
County, Jiten Master, LinkedIn, London, Medical, Noah Storch, Oregon,
Pasadena, Religious harassment, Tampa, Vick Tipnes
=======================================
Nancy Cartwright: Just Another Scientology Celebrity Pawn
August 5, 2016, Jeffrey Augustine, Scientology Money Project
https://scientologymoneyproject.com/2016/08/05/nancy-cartwright-just-another-scientology-celebrity-pawn/
Nancy Cartwright just did a video in which she attacked Going Clear.
After watching the video, I've concluded that Cartwright is just
another Scientology celebrity pawn who has been played to do the
bidding of the Office of Special Affairs.
OSA may not have given Nancy the news: Going Clear earned seven Emmy
nominations and won three Emmy's. Going Clear also made the Oscar short
list for Best Documentary. Alex Gibney won an Oscar for Best
Documentary Feature for his 2007 work Taxi to the Dark Side.
In Nancy's video she uses the same tired old PR line and tells people
to find out for themselves what Scientology is by reading a book. Okay.
I have met this requirement and more. I have found out for myself what
Scientology really is and does and I think it is a malicious and
dishonest criminal Cult. And I am hardly alone in my informed opinion.
Tags: 2007, Aaron Smith-Levin, Alex Gibney, Alexander Jentzsch, Apollo,
Basics, Celebrity, Celebrity Centre, Child labor, Congress, Cult, Dianetics,
Disconnection, Documentary, Fair Game, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood,
and the Prison of Belief, IRS, John Travolta, Karen de la Carriere, Kirstie
Alley, L. Ron Hubbard, Marcab, Nancy Cartwright, Office of Special Affairs,
OT, OT VIII, Quicky, Rehabilitation Project Force, Scientology celebrity,
Scientology executive, Sea Org, Survival Rundown, Tax, Tom Cruise, Xenu
=======================================
Photos: See Inside Harlem's New Scientology Church and Community Center
August 5, 2016, Brendan Krisel, Harlem Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/harlem/photos-see-inside-harlem-s-new-scientology-church-community-center
The Church of Scientology has landed in Harlem, and it's opening its
doors to the community. The religion has set up a mega center on 125th
Street between First and Second avenues. The complex is made up of two
buildings, a community center and a church located two doors down.
Sandwiched in between the buildings stands a branch of the New York
Public Library.
Tags: E-meter, Harlem, Keisha Latty, Sunday service, The Way to Happiness
=======================================
Regraded Being
August 5, 2016, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/friday-regraded-being-57/
And just for good measure, RB forwarded the promotion this strip is
based on:
Tags: Quicky, Regraded Being
=======================================
An unusual Scientology advertisement leads to new intel on secretive 'Int
Base'
August 5, 2017, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2017/08/05/an-unusual-scientology-advertisement-leads-to-new-intel-on-secretive-int-base/
(The 'Cine Castle' at Int Base, home to the studios of Golden Era
Productions)
We have an intriguing item today that appears to be rather modest, but
in investigating it, it opened up a new window on a place we never lose
interest in: Scientology's Int Base.
The item we're talking about was an ad that was placed on a closed
Facebook group for a union of Los Angeles set painters. You know, the
folks who give TV or movie backdrops the right look for whatever
historical era or mood you're going for. These are very talented people
who know how to make a surface come alive with some paint and some
know-how.
Tags: 1970, 1987, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016, Amy Scobee,
Apollo, BBC, Christi Mullins, Claire Headley, CMO Int, Commodore's Messenger
Organization, David Miscavige, Diana Hubbard, Facebook, Golden Era, Golden
Era Productions, Hollywood, Int Base, John Sweeney, Los Angeles, Marc
Headley, Massacre Canyon, Mike Rinder, Quicky, Roanne Horwich, Ron Miscavige,
Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me, Scientology executive,
Sea Org, Tampa Bay Times, The Hole
=======================================
Critical Q&A #120
August 5, 2017, Chris Shelton, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZM1UFtLp6s
The show where I answer your questions. Please leave any comments or
feedback in the comments section here below. I see everything and want
to hear from you.
SHOP FOR CRITICAL MERCHANDISE
http://shop.spreadshirt.com/chrisshelton
Tags: Audio, Critic, Quicky, Scientology: A to Xenu
=======================================
Scientology End Phenomena
August 5, 2017, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/scientology-end-phenomena/
At the end of a process in Scientology, it isn't enough for a PC
(Pre-Clear; basically anyone receiving auditing) to say "Thanks, I feel
a little better," and walk away. Likewise, "I feel like I'm done," or
"You know?I think I've gone as far I can go with this," doesn't signal
the end of a session. "I'm already in PT (present time)," or "Nah, I
really don't believe in past lives," will not be accepted as an "end
phenomenon"-EP for short-in the Church of Scientology.
Unlike other therapies, L. Ron Hubbard thought it necessary to append
specific EPs to every auditing process, rundown, course, or level of
his Bridge to Total Freedom. Rarely, have other practices in the field
of mental health made such conceits. Nor guaranteed unqualified cures
or promised patients they wouldn't relapse. LRH never had such
reservations.
Why couldn't he have left well enough alone? Why did he feel he had to
make such fantastic claims? Why did he have to append specific EPs to
the end of everything? Did he really believe his processes produced
these phenomenal "gains" on everyone, uniformly, without exception? Was
the man so sure of his genius that he couldn't conceive his processes
wouldn't work unvaryingly, one hundred percent of the time? Or did he
devise these EPs as simply another carrot to lure people up the Bridge?
Tags: 1970, Bridge to Total Freedom, Case Supervisor, Clear, Critic, David
Miscavige, DC8, Dianetics, E-meter, End Phenomena, Ethics, L. Ron Hubbard,
Scientology organization, Terra Cognita, Word Clearing
=======================================
?Qu? es la iglesia de cienciolog?a y por qu? est? tomando fue...
August 5, 2018, Canal1, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VafdYC4oZCY
Vea la nota en https://canal1.com.
co/noticias/que-es-la-cienciologia-y-por-que-esta-tomando-fuerza-en-colombia/
Tags: Colombia, Quicky
=======================================
Aaron Smith-Levin Life After Scientology Episode 19
August 5, 2018, Ron Miscavige, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0hl-Z0egE
Aaron's YouTube channel reads as follows:
Description
Growing Up in Scientology is here to discuss what it's like growing up
in the Church of Scientology as a 2nd or 3rd generation member and how
growing up in Scientology, whether as a public, staff member or Sea Org
member shapes one's worldview.
Tags: Aaron Smith-Levin, Clear, David Miscavige, Facebook, Growing Up In
Scientology, OT, Quicky, Sea Org, Twitter
=======================================
California is on fire, and Scientology naturally sees a golden recruiting
opportunity
August 5, 2018, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2018/08/05/california-is-on-fire-and-scientology-naturally-sees-a-golden-recruiting-opportunity/
Rod Keller has another sobering look at what Scientology's "Volunteer
Ministers" are really up to...
The Carr fire has been burning in Northern California since July 25.
It's a large and destructive fire, and despite the work of thousands of
firefighters it's no more than 37 percent contained. Redding,
California remains at risk with more than 90,000 residents. For
Scientology the fire is an opportunity to put on the yellow Volunteer
Minister T-shirts and head north. As we have seen during the Hurricane
Harvey recovery and more recently in Manchester, England the VMs are
promoted as one of the most important disaster response teams on the
planet. And as with previous disasters the VMs are gathering donated
supplies at the last minute rather than prepare supplies in advance as
major relief agencies do.
[Carr fire area]
Tags: California, Donation, England, Facebook, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane
Maria, Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Los Angeles,
Manchester, Mission, Puerto Rico, Quicky, Red Cross, Rod Keller, Sacramento,
San Francisco, Tent, Volunteer Ministers
=======================================
Clear on the 1st Dynamic? I Think Not
August 5, 2018, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/clear-on-the-1st-dynamic-i-think-not/
Our old friend Terra Cognita has provided another thought-provoking
essay.
Clear on the 1st Dynamic? I Think Not
When people weren't going "Clear" during Scientology auditing, L. Ron
Hubbard-or someone within the church; I don't know who-decided that
pre-OT processing only cleared people on the First Dynamic. "Clears"
were told that they no longer had their "own reactive mind." In other
words, people who'd been audited on Dianetics and the Grades were now
superhuman and self-determined, but still screwed up on their other
seven Dynamics. Apparently, seven-eighths of their problems and
hang-ups still existed.
Tags: Clear, Dianetics, E-meter, Ethics, Google, L. Ron Hubbard, Mental
Health, OT, OT 7, Quicky, Terra Cognita
=======================================
Critical Q&A #171
August 5, 2018, Chris Shelton, Critical Thinker at Large
https://mncriticalthinking.com/2018/08/05/critical-qa-171/
The weekly show where I answer viewer questions left for me in the
comment section of my Q&A videos or sent to me by email at
AskChri...@gmail.com. This week, the questions I answer are:
(1) Do you ever worry or feel that OSA may, in fact, spend money on
fake Patreons for you, or does that explicitly contravene the edict
that an ex-member/SP may be "ruined utterly"? The way the policy is
applied certainly does not seem to be either equal or make sense to me
- for example, an OSA operative infiltrated some people's business for
several years while being quite a good sales person & was therefore
temporary an asset for them (I seem to recall). Actually, there are
countless instances of this "policy" being applied rather haphazardly,
so perhaps the question above isn't that silly after all!
(2) In your Santa Barbara years, have you ever come across a dude named
Reed Slatkin? He worked at the Celebrity Center between approximately
1975 and 1984, then moved to Santa Barbara and started offering
investment management services to fellow Scientologists (among the
high-profile Scientologists he roped in were Anne Archer, Giovanni
Ribisi, Greta Van Susteren, and Sky Dayton). In reality, it was a Ponzi
scheme, which gradually unraveled between mid-1990s and 2001, when he
was arrested. He pleaded guilty in 2003 (he actually claimed something
along the lines of "Scientology made me do it", but the Church retained
Latham & Watkins to fight the allegations). He was sentenced to 14
years of prison, served ten, was released to a halfway house in Long
Beach in 2013, and died in 2015.
Tags: 1975, 1984, 1990, 2001, 2003, 2013, 2015, Anne Archer, Celebrity
Centre, Critic, David Miscavige, Giovanni Ribisi, Greta Van Susteren,
Lawrence Wright, Office of Special Affairs, Ponzi scheme, Quicky, Reed
Slatkin, Santa Barbara, Sea Org, Sky Dayton, Tom Cruise
=======================================
Correlation Without Causation
August 5, 2019, Mike Rinder, Something Can Be Done About It
https://www.mikerindersblog.org/correlation-without-causation/
Scientology loves to claim they are responsible for "Clearing the
planet" and "bettering society" - proclaiming they are "slaying the
four modern horsemen of the apocalypse, drugs, illiteracy, criminality
and immorality." They routinely take credit for all sorts of things:
reducing crime in Colombia by 50%, increasing literacy rates in third
world countries, eradicating gang violence etc. They find a statistic
and then claim "we handed out 74,000 copies of WTH and the number of
divorces in Denmark is lowest in a decade. " It is clear (in their
minds) that this is incontrovertible evidence that "WTH solved divorces
in Denmark" and "we are making a better society thanks to the IAS and
COB"... This scenario is repeated in every scientology major event ever
held. (They ignore their role when the divorce rate goes back up - that
of course is the psychs at work).
This is what is known as correlation without causation. Less eggs were
laid in Georgia last year than the year before. More red M&Ms were
consumed than ever last year. Thus eating red M&Ms causes chickens not
lay eggs. This is scientology "logic".
Scientology also loves graphs - though they often have no numbers on
them and are not verifiable in any way.
Tags: 2011, Chairman of the Board, Clear, Colombia, Denmark, Facebook,
Freedom Medal Winner, Georgia, International Association of Scientologists,
Meghan Fialkoff, New Yorker, Quicky, Twitter
=======================================
Fraser Institute study proves the average Canadian pays nearly five trillion
dollars in taxes per year
August 5, 2019, Mary Gillis, satire, The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2019/08/fraser-institute-study-proves-the-average-canadian-pays-nearly-five-trillion-dollars-in-taxes-per-year/
VANCOUVER ? The Fraser Institute has released its annual 'Tax Freedom
Day' report, an estimate of the tax burden of the average Canadian
which this year adds up to a whopping five trillion dollars per taxpayer.
"In 2018, the average Canadian family earned an income of $88,865 and
paid total taxes equaling $4,988,921,656,429.12, approximately
5600000000% of their income," the study says. "Individuals in Canada
are not only paying more taxes than individuals in any other country,
they are each paying more taxes than the entire population of any other
country."
Despite some questioning the methodology of the study, which not only
includes the taxes paid by individual Canadians but also those paid by
corporations, adds in the GDP of Liechtenstein, Paraguay, and
Madagascar, then multiplies that by 67 before dividing the result by
the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin, most Canadian
news services are satisfied enough with the conservative think-tank's
conclusion to report it as fact.
Tags: 2018, Canada, DougWiki, Fraser Institute, Liechtenstein, Tax
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Politician Pride Parade participation matters to voters: expert
August 5, 2019, Lasia Kretzel, CityNews
https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/08/05/politician-pride-parade-participation-matters-to-voters-expert/
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) - As Vancouver Pride week winds down for another
year, voters are taking stock of which politicians did, and more
importantly, didn't take part in the festivities, according to one
political expert.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was joined by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
and the Green Party's Elizabeth May in walking a few blocks together to
show solidarity with the LGBTQ community.
Missing among them was the leader of the official opposition,
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer.
Tags: 2015, Andrew Scheer, Canada, Coquitlam, Daniel Schow, DougWiki,
Elizabeth May, Green Party, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, LGBTQ, Maxime
Bernier, Ontario New Democratic Party, People's Party of Canada, Politician,
Pride Parade, Regina, Richmond, Stephen Harper, Vancouver, Vancouver Pride
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Scientology is the coolest religion on earth, video proves
August 5, 2019, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
https://tonyortega.org/2019/08/05/scientology-is-the-coolest-religion-on-earth-video-proves/
Copenhagen has done it again.
Just when if feels like it couldn't get any more miserable in this
terrible modern world we live in, and the news is so grim we try not to
catch sight of the national news, along come our Danish friends to
remind us that things could always be worse: we could be Scientologists!
You might remember a previous incident, way back in 2011, when the
Advanced Org in Copenhagen put out one of the best Scientology hip-hop
videos of all time, with staffers lip-syncing their way through a Chill
EB song written for the International Association of Scientologists
(IAS). The song was titled "Dauntless, Defiant, and Resolute" - the IAS
slogan - and with its break dancers and a cameo appearance of a
Mercedes-Benz convertible, it's one of our favorite things ever.
Tags: 2011, 2017, 2018, Advanced Org, Birthday Game, Chill EB, Clear,
Clearwater, Copenhagen, David Miscavige, DC, Dublin, Facebook, Free Zone,
Ideal Org, International Association of Scientologists, Kaohsiung, Mercedes-
Benz, Miami, Mike Rinder, Milano, Police, Purple Heart, Quicky, Rod Keller,
Sacramento, Twin Cities, Venezuela, Washington, Youth for Human Rights
International
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Video: Trudeau, Singh and May walk together in Vancouver Pride Parade; Scheer
skips event
August 5, 2019, Canadian Press, Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/video-trudeau-singh-and-may-walk-together-in-vancouver-pride-parade-scheer/
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party
leader Elizabeth May put aside their partisan differences ahead of
October's election and marched together at Vancouver's Pride Parade on
Sunday. Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer did not attend.
Tags: Andrew Scheer, Canadian Press, Conservative Party of Canada, DougWiki,
Elizabeth May, Green Party, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Ontario New
Democratic Party, Pride Parade, Vancouver, Vancouver Pride
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